κατοχή

κᾰτέχω (kătékhō) +‎ -η (-ē).

κᾰτοχή • (kătokhḗ) f (genitive κᾰτοχῆς); first declension

1. a holding fast, detention
   1. hindrance, delay
   2. retention (of breath, memory, etc.)
2. possession, mental grasp

• Greek: κατοχή (katochí)

• “κατοχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• κατοχή in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “κατοχή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κατοχή, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Inherited from Ancient Greek κατοχή (katokhḗ).

• IPA^(key): /ka.toˈçi/

κατοχή • (katochí) f

1. possession
2. occupation (control of a country by a hostile army)

• κατοχή, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language